Gadgetory

hi I'm Emily Yoshida with the verge and we're here at the first ever panorama Festival in New York City and right behind me is the lab the verge is an incredible interactive art space we talked to beau Burroughs one of the artists with work in the lab and Alex Frankel and Nicholas Milhiser Holy Ghost about making magic out of sound light and digital effects so for panorama we built something that we are calling visceral recess we kind of channeled those bioluminescent deep sea creature vibes to create something that you can go inside and roll around and press on and it will react to your presence as much as you yet welcome to the lab thank you rather so we're sitting inside a thing I built that is meant to look like intestines that light up and kind of trying to like beautify your inner guests so that people are more comfortable I don't know if it's because DMX protocols were kind of old nor k occur because sometimes the lighting guys aren't totally keating with the thing you guys have any feelings online stuff you want to do in the future in terms of how visuals tie into the musical phones yeah like dmx is very antiquated it's very similar to MIDI which is similarly antiquated but they're I mean they're they're basically the same language being musicians we're familiar with MIDI so we use MIDI to like write lights I think honestly one of the biggest obstacle is often times elddis aren't musicians and musicians aren't LVS because you have these two different languages there's always some rough or something that really should be very simple and easy and like musical and lot like it should be something that you should be able to play live this is Gabriel blood Jose peace infinity wall for panorama we're building an immersive installation made out about infinity mirrors and see through mirrors it will be triggering ripples of light through the installation so this is touch design rooms the same one I use for my I'm same one Dave and Gabe is using for theirs and it's really really good at doing better processing so you can input it tons of data you can have audio level sample rates like 44.1 killers data going through it but it's really great because it all runs on the GPU so you can process massive arrays at the same time so connect out is a great example it comes in its video but you can turn it into just float values and use it for anything so that's what they're visualizing here you guy that we work with on a lot of stuff it was pioneered you work in touch designer especially and he built this visualizer in here with Daniel schäfer another guy everyone kind of has a hand in all the things I feel like there's tons of potential in Sinking visuals with music and keeping that one cohesive sing it really feels like we're at the nerd table and the cafeteria is that this is Sir